Siddons



Jan. 24, 1956 M |DD SPOUT FOR CONTAINER Filed July 6, 1953 INVENTOR M.Biddons ATTORNEYS United States Patent SPOUT FOR CGNTAINER MilburnSiddons, Flint, Mich. Application July 6, 1953, Serial No. 366,107

1 Claim; (Cl. 222-566) This invention relates to a pouring spout adaptedto be secured to a container.

An object of this invention is to provide a collapsible pouring spoutwhich is adapted to be fixedly secured to an upper end of a container sothat when the container is opened, the spout may be extended outwardlyfrom the container and formed to guide the liquid as it is being pouredfrom the container.

Another object of this invention is to provide a pouring spout of thiskind which is preferably formed out of relatively thin material whichmay be soldered or otherwise fixedly secured to the outer side of acontainer with the spout initially formed in blank form. A rectangularpiece of metal is provided with a pair of parallel scores defining theside walls of the spout which are adapted to be bent upwardly when thespout is swung outwardly and obliquely from the side wall of thecontainer.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in thearrangement, combination and details of construction disclosed in thedrawings and specification, and then more particularly pointed out intheappended claim.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a container having apouring spout constructed according to an embodiment of this inventionmounted thereon.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the pouring spout in extended position.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the spout in blank form.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional view showing the spout attached tothe top of the container.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral designates generally acylindrical container which is adapted to hold liquid or the like.

In order to provide a means whereby the liquid may be poured from thecontainer 10 without having the liquid flow downwardly along the sidewall of the container, I have provided a pouring spout generallyindicated at 11. The pouring spout 11 is formed of a bottom wall 12opposite side walls 13 formed integral with the bottom wall 12 and theupper end of bottom wall 12 has extending downwardly therefrom, a flange14.

The flange 14 is adapted to be fixed as by soldering,

welding or the like to the outer side of the container 10 as shown inFigures 1, 2 and 3. In the initial formation of the spout 11, the spoutis stamped from a rectangular sheet as shown in Figure 4, and the flange14 is bent along the line 15. A pair of parallel scores 16 are formedlengthwise of the bottom wall 12 so that when it is desired to extendthe spout 11 from the dotted line position shown in Figure 3, the sidewalls 13 are bent upwardly to assume substantially a right angularposition with respect to the bottom wall 12. The pouring spouthereinbefore described is produced as a permanent attachment to thecontainer 10 and by having the spout 11 initially in collapsed andsubstantially blank form as shown in dotted lines in Figures 2 and 3,the pouring spout will not initially occupy any substantial space inaddition to the container 10.

When the top has been removed from container 10 or the top has beenpunctured, spout 11 is then pulled outwardly to an obliquely inclinedposition and the side walls 13 are then raised upwardly along the scorelines 16.

It will be obvious that instead of being secured to a side wall of thecontainer, as shown, the pouring spout can in a similar manner beattached to the top 17 of the container as shown in Figure 5, the flange14 can be attached to the top 17 and the spout 11 extended over the rimof the can. In brief, the device is not limited as to the specific pointof attachment thereof to the container, the principal object being toprovide a spout in a flat form, attached to the container, and so madethat it can be readily bent along predetermined lines to form a spout,no tools being required to accomplish this.

What is claimed is:

In a container of the type having a top wall and at least one side Wallthe combination therewith of a pouring spout comprising a relativelythin rectangular metallic blank having a pair of spaced apart parallelside edges, a pair of spaced apart parallel end edges, said end edgesbeing substantially shorter than said side edges, a score line formedinone surface of said blank extending between said side edges parallelto but spaced from one of said end edges a pair of score lines formed insaid one surface of said panel and extending parallel to but spaced fromsaid opposite side edges between said first mentioned score line and theother of said end edges, said blank having one end portion thereofextending downwardly at an angle to the remaining portion thereof withsaid end portion delineated by said first named score line and havingopposite side portions extending upwardly at an angle to the remainingportion with said side portions delineated by said parallel score linesand means securing said one end portion of said blank to the said sidewall of said container.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,261,260 Meares Apr. 2, 1918 1,726,090 Von Briesen et al Aug. 27, 19291,901,742 Fitzhugh Mar. 14, 1933 2,546,052 Wilkins Mar. 20, 1951

